Charmed: 42 Famous, Forgotten Guest Stars

AMY ADAMS

Easily the biggest name on this list, Adams did quite a bit of TV work early on in her career — including a Season 2 episode of Charmed in which she played Maggie Murphy, a future Whitelighter cursed with a string of bad luck. (Hence the episode’s title, “Murphy’s Luck.”)

ANNIE WERSCHING

Now a staple of supernatural TV shows (Runaways, The Vampire Diaries, etc.), Wersching was relatively new to the genre when she appeared in a Season 6 episode of Charmed, playing a leather-clad member of the deadly Demonatrix clan. (I’ll give you one guess why they were called that.)

ASHLEY TISDALE

Five years before starring in High School Musical, Tisdale found herself on the run from a banshee — more specifically, Phoebe as a banshee — in the penultimate episode of Charmed’s third season.

BECKI NEWTON

When the Charmed Ones chose to impulsively fake their deaths in the Season 7 finale, they needed to quickly conjure some disguises — and Piper’s looked an awful lot like Amanda from Ugly Betty.

BETHANY JOY LENZ

Though she’s best known for her nine seasons as Haley James Scott, Lenz appeared on several WB shows before booking One Tree Hill, including Charmed. A Season 4 episode found her playing a fairytale character named Lady Julia.

BILLY ZANE

By the time Season 7 rolled around, Charmed had gone completely off the rails — but there were a few bright spots in the later years, including Zane’s three-episode arc as former demon Drake. (Finding out that he’d sent by Cole to help Phoebe re-open her heart made his demise even more tragic.)

BRUCE CAMPBELL

Let’s all be thankful that Campbell wasn’t wielding his Evil Dead chainsaw when he crossed paths with the Charmed Ones at the end of Season 4… or he might have actually succeeded in killing them!

CHARISMA CARPENTER

Given the prophetic powers she wielded on Angel, it only made sense for Carpenter to play a future-telling seer in Charmed’s seventh season. (If only she could have foreseen her imminent death!)

CHARLIE WEBER

After all the dirty deeds we’ve seen him commit on How to Get Away With Murder, it’s hard to imagine Weber as a chivalrous (not to mention baby-faced!) fairytale knight… and yet he played one in a Season 4 episode of Charmed.

CHRISTINA MILIAN

Two years before her debut single “AM to PM” topped every damn chart known to man, Milian guest-starred in a Season 2 episode of Charmed as a young kidnapping victim.

DANIEL DAE KIM

Kim’s evil Season 4 character was next-level stealthy, traveling through puddles of water — and even the Halliwells’ kitchen sink at one point — to get the jump on his enemies.

DAVID ANDERS

Is anyone beginning to suspect that iZombie’s Anders might actually be a member of the undead? He hasn’t aged a day since playing an old-timey club owner in Charmed’s seventh season.

DEAN NORRIS

If Norris’ Breaking Bad character had the same powers as his Season 2 Charmed persona — specifically, the ability to stab someone’s brain and absorb their memories — I’m thinking the AMC drama would have reached a much earlier conclusion.

ERIC DANE

Next to Cole, Dane’s character — a handsome millionaire named Jason Dean who appeared in nine episodes — was probably the closest Phoebe came to having a true love. (You know, before she settled for Coop.)

ERIC WINTER

Trying (and failing) to court Paige in a Season 5 episode of Charmed was merely practice for Winter’s future role in Lifetime’s tragically short-lived Witches of East End.

JAIME PRESSLEY

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before: Pressley guest-starred in the Season 5 premiere as a mermaid… who made a bargain with a sea witch… and needed a man to profess his love to save her life. There weren’t any singing crabs, but you get the idea.

JAMES AVERY & BETSY RANDLE

This one’s for all you ‘90s kids out there! Who didn’t love spotting The Fresh Prince’s Uncle Phil and Boy Meets World’s Mrs. Matthews as they drifted in and out of the Charmed Ones’ collective orbit in the later seasons?

JASON LEWIS

He may have kept his clothes on for the duration of his six-episode arc in Season 8, but this Sex and the City alum still left his mark on Charmed — by temporarily wedding Alyssa Milano’s Phoebe.

JODI LYN O’KEEFE

Playing a (good) witch on The Vampire Diaries was child’s play after her Season 6 appearance as Charmed‘s Spider Demon. (In an interview with TVLine, O’Keefe recalled having to be led around set by one of the ADs as a result of her demonic contacts compromising her vision.)

JOHN CHO

Despite appearing fully corporeal here, Cho was actually playing a ghost in this early Season 1 episode. (Early practice for The Exorcist, perhaps?)

JON HAMM

No, you’re not going Mad — this really is a shot of Hamm from a Season 7 episode, in which Paige and Kyle (RIP!) traveled back in time to find out the truth about his parents’ death.

JUSTIN BALDONI

Long before his days of inadvertently getting women pregnant on Jane the Virgin, Baldoni appeared in a Season 7 episode of Charmed, playing a rebellious li’l demon named Salko.

KEN MARINO

For Marino’s Season 5 guest spot, we were either going with this photo or the one of him bleeding out in a back alley. You’re welcome.

LESLIE GROSSMAN

It says a lot about Grossman’s charisma that we even remember her character, who appeared in literally one scene in one episode of Season 4.

MARISOL NICHOLS & LOCHLYN MUNRO

Before they were raising kids in Riverdale, Nichols (aka Hermione Lodge) and Munro (aka Hal Cooper) were raising hell on Charmed’s sixth and second seasons, respectively.

MELINDA CLARKE

Clarke guest-starred in a Season 5 episode of Charmed playing a siren, a powerful seductress who preyed on vulnerable married men. (Come to think of it, was this just her audition tape for The O.C.?)

MELISSA GEORGE

If you ever watched George on The Good Wife or Grey’s Anatomy and wondered what she would look like as the leader of a group of battle-ready valkyries, allow me to direct you to Charmed’s Season 6 premiere.

MICHAEL TREVINO

Vampire Diaries fans, meet Baby Tyler Lockwood.

MICHAEL WEATHERLY

Nearly 20 years before Weatherly left NCIS, he left a coven of evil warlocks — with an assist from the Charmed Ones, of course.

MICHAELA WATKINS

Watkins guest-starred in a Season 3 episode, which found her being *ahem* casually stalked by the Angel of Death. (Spoiler alert: He got her.)

MISHA COLLINS

Long before sprouting wings of his own on Supernatural, Collins appeared in Season 2 as a one-off character that sincerely referred to Phoebe as an angel. If only he knew…

NICK LACHEY

When Phoebe decided to take a sabbatical atop Season 7, the newspaper hired a ghostwriter — one that came with his own boy band.

NORMAN REEDUS

You’ve seen Reedus handle his fair share of zombies on The Walking Dead, but his brief Season 5 arc on Charmed revealed the one enemy he may never overcome: his fear of commitment.

RAINN WILSON

If you thought Wilson played a nightmare on The Office, you should have seen him as a knife-wielding alchemist in this Season 3 episode of Charme.

RON PERLMAN

The future Sons of Anarchy patriarch guest-starred in a Season 3 episode of Charmed, playing the organizer of an underground — like, way underground — wrestling club for demons.

SARAH RAFFERTY

The dress code at Wyatt’s pre-school — where Suits star Rafferty played a judgmental teacher in Season 6 — was considerably more casual than the one at Pearson Specter Litt.

SEBASTIAN ROCHE

Roché’s mission to appear in every supernatural drama on television (The Vampire Diaries, The Originals, Fringe, etc.) included a pit top in Season 7 of Charmed.

SHERRI SAUM

Way before becoming one of The Fosters, Shaum played a ghost — formerly a witch, before she was murdered — in a Season 3 episode.

TOBIN BELL

Oh, you thought Bell was terrifying as Jigsaw? You clearly haven’t seen his guest appearance in Season 5 of Charmed, in which he walked around town gouging out gypsies’ eyeballs.

ZACHARY QUINTO

Like his character on Heroes, Quinto spent much of his Season 5 episode running around trying to cut people open — only he had to use a knife in this case. (Sorry, Silar!)